Hi everyone. I'm not even sure what this would be called so I'm calling it a relay for lack of a better idea and lack of understanding.
I have a piece of equipment that gets turned off each night and turned on each morning. Each time it gets turned on it needs to be homed which also sets zero position. To do this you must hold a button for at least 3 seconds.
The problem is if I have a new or forgetful person on the machine they will often forget to home it after turning it on, and won't do it until the next setup... where invariably they realize their mistake and get to do the previous jobs again.
So, what I need is a device that once power is applied to the machine it will wait a moment (like less than one second) and then "press" that button for at least three seconds (can be a little longer as long as it stops pressing). I was thinking some kind of relay would work for this but....
During the course of the day the machine may need to be reset. So basically they may need to press the button again and then hold the button for three seconds without this relay interferring.
I'm not even sure where to begin on this, and unfortunately the guy who assembled/built this machine some time ago is no longer around. Given that I normally just maintain things I'm in over my head, but the boss told me to get it figured out.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have a piece of equipment that gets turned off each night and turned on each morning. Each time it gets turned on it needs to be homed which also sets zero position. To do this you must hold a button for at least 3 seconds.
The problem is if I have a new or forgetful person on the machine they will often forget to home it after turning it on, and won't do it until the next setup... where invariably they realize their mistake and get to do the previous jobs again.
So, what I need is a device that once power is applied to the machine it will wait a moment (like less than one second) and then "press" that button for at least three seconds (can be a little longer as long as it stops pressing). I was thinking some kind of relay would work for this but....
During the course of the day the machine may need to be reset. So basically they may need to press the button again and then hold the button for three seconds without this relay interferring.
I'm not even sure where to begin on this, and unfortunately the guy who assembled/built this machine some time ago is no longer around. Given that I normally just maintain things I'm in over my head, but the boss told me to get it figured out.
Any help would be appreciated.